Peter Weir's The Truman Show The Truman Show Lies, Damn Lies, and Reality TV. an analysis for 2025 Daragh Henchy: PhD Candidate | Macquarie University Abstract This paper offers a Deleuzian reading of The Truman Show (dir. Peter Weir, 1998), examining how the film deploys key taxonomic elements from Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. It argues that Weir’s formal choices (his framing, camera placement, shot durations, and the construction of Truman’s world) uses Deleuze’s image-types to reflect and...